Point-of-Care tools are meant to be utilized within a clinician's workflow, making the research process quick and seamless. Understanding when and how to use these databases and becoming comfortable with the platforms ensures that students, residents, and clinicians are able to gain the evidence necessary to make the best decisions possible for their patients. The main goal of these databases is to help clinicians make accurate evidence-based decisions during their everyday practice.
Foreground questions arise during patient interactions, they are highly focused on the specific problem/question/condition that a specific patient presents. These databases are meant to help answer these types of questions in quickly consumable chunks and bullet points. While it can be important to be fast in these situations, it's more important to be right and these databases can help you be both.
These tutorials are meant to be quick dives into the background and search features of these databases to give you, the user, the ability to navigate through to the best evidence/answer possible. All tutorials are about 15 minutes.
It is highly recommended that you 1) create a personal account using your Rowan email to access all that these databases have to offer and 2) either download the mobile versions or bookmark the sites to make access quick and easy.